Spring radio and TV changes

Jeremy Levy back with you to write about Spring radio and TV changes Back on April 19th. I got to meet one of my favorite radio hosts Lois Melkonian. Lois is now doing work shops in addition to her podcast with Faith Donaldson. I went to their first work shop and it was certainly inspiring for me. I learned that sometimes it takes a while to accomplish your dreams or goals that you have, but everyone can accomplish their dreams and goals. I went to a second work shop with Faith and Lois. I will write more about this in a future post. The Rockies season has started with the coldest opening day on record here in Colorado. The Rockies are about 500 right now. It was so much fun listening to Mandy Connell, Dave Logan, Rick Lewis, Kathy Lee, Corey Lopez, and Mike Rice broadcasting live from downtown Denver on opening day. Each show interviewed Dick Monford and Jeff Bridich. Dick is the owner of the Rockies and Jeff is the General Manager of the team. Both of them were really excited about the Rockies this year about making the play offs and going further than last year. It was surprising to me that Altitude Sports radio 950 wasn’t broadcasting from Downtown Denver. I am hoping that the Rockies will have a wonderful season. Also Altitude Sports radio celebrated their 3rd year anniversary. In my opinion Altitude Sports radio has started off a little bit slow with hosts and programming. My two favorite programs on that station are the Scott Hastings and Julie Browman show, and the Mark Moser show. Julie and Scott are on from 10-1 p.m. and The Mark Moser show is on from 1:30 p.m. Mark Moser is also the Avalanche announcer.“Avalanche are going to the playoffs The Ave’s have guts!” Mark Moser quote.That’s right. The Avalanche were in the play offs The Avalanche haven’t been in the play offs for 4 years. . They played against Nashville. The Nashville Predators went all the way to the Stanley Cup finals last year, so there team is very good. They lost the Stanley Cup final game though. The Avalanche are proved that they were not scared of the Predators, although they lost the series in 6 games. I listened to the games on Altitude 950 with Mark Moser as the play by play announcer. They had a very impressive game on April 20th They used their third string goalie because their other 2 goalies were injured. He came from the Ottaua Senators and he played a great game giving the Avalanche a 2 to 1 win. This is wonderful for the Mile high city to have a team like the Avalanche making some wonderful news by playing in the play offs. I e-mailed Dan Mandis, who was in Denver and now is in Nashville, to get his thoughts on what was going on in Nashville and he said that it was exciting there in Nashville. He also mentioned that the Predators have been in this position before.This is not new for Nashville. The Ave’s lost the 6th game in the play offs so they are out of the play offs. No one thought that the Ave’s would make it to the play offs at all based on the bad year that they had last year .The NFL draft happened on April 26th. I listened to Sports radio 104.3 the Fan, KOA radio 850 A.m. and Altitude Sports radio 950 and orange and blue 760 radio to get the different opinions from the hosts about the Bronco’s picks. I flip back and forth to get these opinions. I think this will be an interesting draft class this year. I have heard that 4 out of the ten players that the Bronco’s picked in the draft will be on the Roster this year. This has been the best draft coverage I have heard. My 3 favorite players are Courtland Sutton, Troy Fumagalli, and Josi Jewel. I also think that Bradley Chubb was an excellent pick up. In my opinion both the draft and the radio coverage of the draft deserve an A. My favorite radio sports station covering the draft is 850 KOA and Orange and Blue 760. I think they deserve an A+ because they had the most in depth coverage with interviews with the players. One moment that I really liked on sports radio 104.3 the Fan’s coverage was when Bradley Chubb was getting drafted Alfred Williams was so excited. You could hear the excitement and the joy in his voice. Altitude Sports radio didn’t have the best coverage. They don’t have the staff that the other sports outlets have. That is disappointing.Casey Bloyer is leaving his Thursday night show on News/Talk 710KNUS, The Bloyer Effect. Casey's quote "It's been a blast to do the show with Warren Bloyer and Tyler Bloyer every Sunday Night since November 2015! With that being said this will be our last live show tonight. I love doing the show but I have too much going on to continue to do a quality show each week. I also have #3littlebirds at home who need me to be around way more." I'm going to miss Casey and I hope to hear him still filling in on The Mike Boyle Restaurant Show. Casey will still be producing.In an earlier post I mentioned that Dan Jackson had left the morning show at KKLI radio. I didn’t think that he would be returning as an on air host anywhere. He has made a return to KKPK 92.9 radio in Colorado Springs. He is starting to do some weekend shifts on that station. Congratulations to Dan. I am so excited to hear that you are back on the air. I was a big fan of his when he was on KKLI radioAmy Griesheimer has been named market president of the Colorado Springs and Pueblo market She will report to Tim Hager the president of I heart media in Denver. Congratulations to Amy.Jon Bowman has retired from fox 31 news. Also Dave Kreiger has been fired from the Boulder Daily Camera. I will really miss Dave. Dave Kreiger took over as Dave Logan’s co-host when Lois left the Ride Home show. He was let go by KOA in 2014 or 2015. It is hard for me to keep track. I loved it when Dave Krieger and Lois Melkonian would work together. Karen Lindsay and Dave Kreiger worked well together as well. If you are in the Springs and you watch KXRM fox TV than you might recognize a new sports anchor on that station. Julia Macguire is the new sports anchor. She came from Grand Junction Colorado at KREX TV. She grew up near Massachusetts. She has covered many sports stories at KREX TV and hopes to cover a lot more stories relating to sports at KXRM TV. I got this from Terry Terones from the Gazette news paper.Stewart Vanderwilt has been named president of Colorado Public Radio. Stewart is replaced by Max Wycisk. Stewart comes to Colorado Public radio from the Texas area.Samantha Cumm has been named Market president of the Colorado Springs Iheart media group of stations . Samantha will report to president of I heart media Tim Hager.Congratulations to you Samantha.Jeff Johnson has been elevated to sports sales for A.m. 760 and 850 KOA. This means that he will be the main sales person for these 2 stations.Chelsea Thomas has joined the new I Heart Country radio station 106.7 the bull for mid-days starting on April 23. Chelsea was recently in Kentucky at 99.7 WDJX. I read from an inside radio post that she is excited to get back in the Country format. Congratulations to you Chelsea. I am looking forward to listening to Chelsea. I am looking forward to hearing how she sounds.Angela Cortez has been named mid-day host at K280DD radio in Las Vegas. She will become the assistant program director for that station while still continuing to be on KPTT radio and Hot 98.3” KOHT Tucson, afternoons at “96.1 The Beat” KIBT Colorado Springs, and nights at “102.3 The Beat” KPEZ Austin. Cortez fills the opening created by Roxy Romeo’s move to morning co-host at “Power 99” WUSL Philadelphia last month.I got this from radio insight. Justin Tyler is out as OM of Town square media Fort Collins. He has been there since 2014. Replacing him is Lance Tidwell. Tidwell is moving from Cummulous media Kansas city. Tidwell’s other stops include Tennessee, i Heart Media in San Antonio and Tucson while programming Country stations in Hartford, Boise, Memphis, Monterey, and Columbia SC.Lance has been with Cumulous in Kansas City since 2016.Adam Clanton has been let go from sports talk 790 radio in Houston because of some comments that Josh Innes made. Josh is a younger talk radio show host . I am also a fan of Josh’s as well ever since 2014 when he was in Philadelphia. . Josh has been suspended. I will miss Adam. I thought he was a great host on 790 radio. I really liked it when he and Lance Zerlain worked together. I am looking forward to finding out where Adam’s next move might be.Sam Hill is stepping down from mid-days at KALC radio. She is going to be focusing on programming on KQMT the mountain 99.5. A host for mid-days has not been named yet. I really thought that Sam really did a wonderful job on KALC radio. I will miss her. The one memory I do have of her is she really did a wonderful job on the KALC radiothon of children's hospital. She did a wonderful job interviewing the kids and their families.Deanna Regalato is moving from the morning show with JJ McCade at KPTT radio to mid-days at the same station. Deanna also voice tracks mid-days at KSME radio and other I Heart media stations in the Colorado radio as well as a station in Tucson Arizona. J.J. will remain in mornings as Deanna moves into her new position. This position was formally occupied by Angela Cortez who is now programming station in Las Vegas. See above. Michael Coover has been named executive producer of Orange and Blue 760 radio. He will be producing different shifts at the station. It is really wonderful that Orange and Blue 760 is hiring executive producers for it’s local shows. Michael was with 104.3 the fan for a couple of years and he was also with ESPN radio as a producer. Good luck to Michael.Thanks for tuning in.Jeremy Levy